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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

characte OF "Col. Sellers in the dramatic
version Of Mark Twain's story 1.-THE Giided
Age, died at Evansville, Ind, on the 10th,
of heart disease complicated with other
troubles. His last appearance was the
previous Thursday at Nashville Tenn. He
was 81 years old.
The Michigan House has passed bill re
storing the death penalty for murder in
the frat degree.
Five men were injured and the works de
stroyed by an explosion in the Tuscora,
New. powder factory.
Cincinnati cigarmakers to the number of
$500 are preparing to strike to make the
factories Knights Of Labor shops.
The failure is announced of the wholesale
boot and shoe house OF s. N. Brickhouse,
at Norfolk, Va, with liabilities of 100000.
Henry Bower 81 Son, manufacturing
chemists at Philadelphia, failed for $780,
900.
STATUE OF Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
was unveiled in New Orleans on the 9Th.
The Senate of Pennsylvania has passed
O. bill providing that murderers OF the fiji st
degree may be put to death by electricity
The application OF Morris 8. Miller to
have the civil service law declared uncon
stitutional " as dismissed by the Supreme
Court of the District OF Columbia.
An order has been entered in the Com
mon Pleas Court at Cleveland for the sale
OF the Nickel Plate Road for not less than
$16,O0O,O0O. Thirty days notice will be
given.
Illinois Central engineers are in Washing
ton comforting with the War Department
about the bridge across the Ohio at Cairo.
Fifteen hundred horses. smugglad into
Texas and captured by government Of
ficials, will be released ON the payment OF
the duty.
W. A. Clark registry clerk in the New
York postoffice, who is charged with the
theft of 900, under 81. 800 bonds, has
skipped to Canada.
Josiah Caldwell, Of London, company
promoter" has failed for large amount.
He failed once before for f1,OOO,OOO.
An attachment was issued in New York
against the property in that state OF the
st. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado Com.
pany, to satisfy a claim of w. E. Town
for $4,000. The object is to levy upon
the company's securities held by the
American Loan and Trust Company.
DR.. M. l.. Moore, an honored citizen OF
Gainesville, Fla, was recently driven from
home by anonymous letters charging him
with malpractice. An indignation meeting
was held by 200 prominent citizens. who
invited him to return, pledged him protec.
ton and subscribed 5000 as B. reward for
the detection of the letter-writer.
The steamer Saragossa, from Baltimore
March Is for Port Antonio, foundered at
sea $50 miles north of Watling's Island.
The crew were saved and were landed at
Burmuda.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Crimes and Criminals.

William Starr, the defaulting treasurer
ofthe Bricklayers' and Stonemasons' Union
of Chicago, has been located at ST. Mary g,
Ind. where he was running grocery store.
The chief OF police of Terre Haute has
placed him under arrest and a detective
who has the case in charge, will secure re-
QUESTION papers and bring him to Chicago.
Clara Schlag, the young girl who swal-
lowed a quantity Of carbolic acid at New
York a week or more ago, and afterwards
recovered from it's effects repeated the dose
on the night of the 9Th and succeeded in
early next morning after suffering frightful
agony.
At Richmond, Ind, on the 10th, Mrs.
Jonas O. Bennett left her bridal couch and
deliberately jumped from q very high
bridge into Whitewater river and was
drowned, She was unquestionably de-
mented, having been SO once before.
On farm near Chatham, Ill.,, quarrel
between the Waterford brothers resulted
in the murder of William and the attempt
ed suicide of Joseph.
Indian-Agent Osborne, of the Ponca, [.
T., agency, notifies the Indian Com
missioner that in discharging E. M. Smith.
an assistant, he was obliged to kill him.
The coroper's jury in the case OF Mary l..
Buckingham, who was found dead in bed
at Philadelphia returned q verdict of sui
Clue Willis CcLuPOT5TAlJ luSdACs OObpICAOu
had pointed to the woman's husband 90
the murderer.
c.. M. Limerick, an opera-house manager
at Peru, Ind, was killed by R. S. Miller for
making slanderous statements about the
latter wife.
James j. Hamilton, city marsha at
Lancaster, KY, fatally shot Joseph P.
Turner, q drunken farmer, in self defense.
Volney r. Chamberlain, against whom
charges OF perjury and concealment o. as
sets to the amount of $50, 900 were pend
ing at Boston, committed suicide on the
4th, by shooting.
Sonoma, Cal, is said to be the notorious
William Kissane who was indicted in New
York for forgery in 1854
One hundred men battered down the
doors Of the jail at Corning, Ia, early on
the morning OF the Sd, and took therefrom
J. III. Mckenzie, the murderer of J. II.
Riggs, and hanged him to tree. The
leader of the mob gave warning that the
same fate would overtake anyone who re-
vealed the details of the lynching.
The girl found murdered at Railway N.
j., has been positively identified as
Sophie Hess, known under several aliases.
DR.. James Hodges, convicted of having
exploded a bomb in a San Francisco opera
house, was given two years in the peni-
Tertiary.
we'll arranged plan for breaking the
Kings county penitentiary, New York, was
discovered in time to Illustrate the escape
of O. number of prisoners.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

A FAMILY who had been victims Of
the Topolobempo colony fraud made
their way with great difficulty through
Mexico to the American frontier. The
first glimpse of the American flag they
obtained was at Nogales, and as they
beheld cold glory" floating out upon
the breeze they threw themselves upon
their knees and cried for joy. One
little boy 6 years old asked his moth
er, while tears stood in his big eyes,
"If this was heaven" to which she
replied, mo, my son, but we are on
the right road"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

the citizens, $50 strong, yesterday.
A fire break, two miles long,
was made, and the town
town was thus saved from destruction.
On the night of the 9Th a fire swept over q
portion of Huron county, D. T., doing i'm
mense damage. Seven miles from Huron
the house Of Fred Town was burned, with
it's contents. Edward Maloney and Annie
Marine were fatally burned while trying to
escape, and Kate Maloney was go badly
burned that her life was despaired of
Other losses were reported in the same 10.
cality.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Prairie Flres Ira Dakota

Immense prairie fires burned over the
south of Lake County, D. T., en- the night
OF the 9Th. Some twenty-five farmers lost
their houses, barns, stock and grain.
France Keller was burned to death be-
tween his burning house and barn. The
Madison fire department was called out
to protect the town from the fire coming
from the west before wind blowing forty
miles an hour. Reports from points in
North and Central Dakota state that rain
fell on the 9th. for the first time in many
months. greatly improving crop prospects
and removing danger of prairie fires a
dispatch from Highmore, D. t., OF the 9th,
says: An immense prairie fire ia raging
about mile south of town. Driven by q
strong wind from the south it called out
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

THE railroad coal operators Of the
Pittsburg district who ship to West
ern points have formed an association
for the maintenance of uniform sell
ing price of coal. Eighty per cent. of
the firms shipping West, and repre-
senting $12,O00,oOO capital, have
joined the pool. An effort will be
made to have the Hooking Valley syn
dictate cooperate with the new asso-
oiati0n
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
DAMAGES FOR JUMBO.
The Elephant Case to be Called for T.
Navf Monday


The Elephant Case to be Called for Trial
Next Monday.
New YORK, April 8.-Shortly after
the fatal railroad accident to Jumbo,
in the fall of 1885, near Hamilton,
Can, P. T.. Barnum brought suit in
the supreme court against the Grand
Trunk Railroad Company, claiming
100000 damages on account of the
giant elephants death. The case has
since remained on the general ca,en-
dar with it's trial in the very dim fu-
ture. Meantime the Snowman has
got tired waiting, and at his sugges-
tion his counsel, ex-Judge William G..
Choate, made g. motion yesterday to
have the case placed ON the day cal
endar. The motion was granted and
the case set down for trial next Mon
dav
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
TEMPER4NCE IN TEXAS.

Liquor Dealers Preparing for an Organ
lied Election Struggles.
DALLAS, Tex, April 9.-The Whisky
mems State Executive Committee met
here today with closed doors. 1t has
leaked out that they are debating
whether they shall. make q local fight
merely all over the state, or organize
for a state contest with full rugged
committee and bevy OF operators.
The presence here of several Republic
can leaders suggests the idea that that
party will use the present contest
to break down the Democratic party.
They want the Prohibition question
made Democratic party issue and
the Democrats are fghtings shy of this.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
The Haytian Trouble

A dispatch of the 9th from Santiago de
Cuba. says: News has been received from
Hayti to the effect that an amicable settle
ment Of the British claim is likely to be
had. The French frigate La Minerva has
arrived at Port au Prince, but no trouble
is expected. Hayti recently borrowed 49,
900, 900 francs from France, which explains
the interest taken by France in England g
claim The United States steamer Yantic
has arrived here from Hayti, aud her COM
mander states positively that there is no
foundation to the rumor that q massacre
is threatened.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

THE Arkansas Legislature has
passed law ordering all railroad
companies to build a big station just
inside the state where they enter it,,
and stop all trains both ways, thirty
minutes each. Unless it is to prevent
passengers from entering or leaving
the state rashly and without further
reflection, the object of this particular
specimen of legislative idiocy is not
apparent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

THE American Grocer puts the an
nual expenditures for liquor in the
United States at $7OO,OOO,OO0. The
New York Tribune put it at $780,
100000 some time since and Neal Dow
added 500, 100000 to it, making it
$9OO,OOO,OOO. Neither statement is
accompanied by the date from which
it is made up; but on general princi-
pies all should expect the grocer to be
the nearest correct.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
AN Hone Abandoned.

A dispatch of the 9TH from New York
says all hope of the missing steamer
Carmona being heard from is now given
up, and her name has been added to the
long list of those reported lost. At the
office of Funk, Eyde & Co., the agents, it
was said that they never expected to hear
tidings of her. The Salerno, two weeks
overdue, has not been heard ofsince spoken
by the Elbe on March 27, and it is sup
posed that she, too, has sunk. Her cap
tain refused the Elbe's assistance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
Miner Beheaded at the Lake Angelina
Shaft Near Negaunee.

NEeAuNEE, Micn., april "a pecul-
iarly horrible accident happened at
the Lake Angeline mine last night. A
miner named BENZ. Marston was COM
ing from the bottom of the mine in q
s'skip" in which ore is hoisted, when
he stuck his head out at the third
level and it was cut off as though
with knife. The dismembered head
dropped $50 feet to the sixth level and
struck miner on the arm. All the
miners Immediately left the mine, and
would not 60 into the mine again. A
boss named Sincock went down alone
and brought up the head. Marston
was 35 years OF age and married.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Election Notes.

Cincinnati elected Republican mayor
by about 600 plurality.
The entire Democratic ticket was elected
at Cleveland.
The Labor party made clean sweep OF
ell the offices at Dubuque.
The election in Chicago resulted in the
complete defeat OF the Labor party. Roche,
Republican, for mayor, was elected by
about $4,000.
The vote on the Prohibition amendment
to the Michigan Constitution resulted in the
defeat of the amendment.
At Denver, COL, among five tickets in the
field, the Republican was elected by a
small majority
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Lost With ALI Aboard.

The British tramp steamer Carmona
which left Barrow, England, Feb. %, has
not yet arrived at New York, and is given
up as lost with all on board. She had g.
full cargo of steel blooms consigned to 81
firm in Pennsylvania. The vessel was COM
manded by Capt. j. A. Halcrow and crew
of thirty-three men. The Carmona was g.
three-masted, schooner-rigged vessel and
hailed from Dundee, Scotland, where she
was built in April, 1881.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

PUBLIC sentiment has just impelled
one at least OF the great trunk lines to
abolish stoves in cars and to try the
experiment of heating by steam. This
line is the New York Central. That
road claims to be entirely satisfied
with the new scheme. Now if the oil
lamp should be eliminated, the dan
gers of railroad travel would be ma
tegially lessened.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Died From Rabies.

Herman Schultzler, a laborer. unmarried
and about 26 years Of age, died in the in
sane department of the Cook County Jail,
Chicago, on the 18th. The previous night
late it was reported at the Rawson Street
police station that he had given unmistak-
able signs OF hydrophobia. and that
be had recently been bitten by a
dog. The patrol wagon Was sent to
the house and after the handouts had been
placed upon Herman and his ankles had
been dashed together he was taken to the
county hospital, but he was too violent
and his reception Was denied. At o'clock
next morning six officers dragged the
powerful maniac into the insane depart
ment OF the county court. Here he lay
crouching in the corner of his cell,
or beating the padded walls with
his head, face and hands, and
giving voice to the most distracting sounds.
At times he would foam at the mouth and
again would become suddenly calm and
call plaintively in German, Where is the
mamma" Schultzler was bitten by g. dog
four weeks before Christmes. DR.. Blut-
hardt declares it to be true Gaze ofrabies,
but thinks the immediate cause of death
was apoplexy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Many Proposed HOLIDAYS.

In the Pennsylvania Senate bill has
been introduced defining what days shall
constitute legal holidays. 1t provides that
January 1, February %, May 80, July a,
Thanksgiving day, Good Friday, December
25, and every Saturday between June IS
and September Is, after 1 O'Clock in the
afternoon, shall be observed as legal holi-
days.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

CONGRESSMAN BAYNE's wife has q
curious country house at Bellevue, q
few miles down the Ohio from Pitts
burg. 1t is perfectly round IN shape
and has some remarkably odd rooms.
A round ball in the center, following
closely the lines of the house, is lit by
a skylight.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

In the case of the Gar of Russia the
quotation, UNEASY lies the head that
wears q CROWN" no longer applies.
The present Gear is kept on ths Jump
SO actively that he finds no time to
wear a crown or to lie down. A nihil-
istic death sentence means something
In Muscoyy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Lives Lost in a Freshet,

Kings mill dam, at Ingersoii, Ont, was
carried away by spring freshet on the
4th. A tenement house occupied by four
families was swept away by the flood and
wrecked. John Bowman and his daughter,
a young man named John Mclean, and q
drowned, and man named Laird and his
daughter are missing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Nearly q Holocaust.

A fire broke out in five story tenement
house on Sixteenth Street, New York, on
the night of the 7th inst. The building
was occupied by 200 people, and a panic
followed, but owing to the efforts of the
fire department and ambulance corps, no
lives were lost, though twenty of the occu-
pants were more or less injured. The Pc
cuniary loss WAS slight.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

THE New York legislature has de-
termined to put more money in the
Erie canal. Every dollar of the mil
lions thus expended has been returned
tenfold to the people of the empire
state. The commercial supremacy of
New York city dates from the compile
tion of that great waterway.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
FELT nv NEW BRUNSWICK.
The Commerce Law Ruins Freight Bust
ness at st. John.

The Commerce Law Ruins freight Bush
ness at st. John.
ST. JOHN, N. B., April 5.-The inter
state commerce law. which came into
effect yesterday. will have g. great eff
feet on ST. John trade, changing its
channel to the United States from the
New Brunswick railway to the Inter
national Line of steamers, which are
not affected by the law. The railway
was forced to raise It's rates, and thus
ST. John is deprived of rapid daily
freight transit, and must return to
tri-weekly steamers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

WHALE extract is recommended as
an economical substitute for beef ex-
tract. A whale weighing 200 tons
yields 5000 pounds of extract.
Every pound of extract means hun
dred pints of soup. It has not the
slightest oily or fishY taste.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

Poison in ice cream has made it's
appearance in the South, where about
seventy-ive people who attended a
church picnic are under the doctors
care, and will work it's way North
slong the usual routes of travel. This
is one of the epidemics that shotgun
quarantine cannot reach.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Ruined by the New Law.

burg, Pa, employing about 200 men, and
the Lochiel and the Grafton furnace have
ceased operations until the railroad trans
portations companies reached some con.
clusion regarding freight rates. The mill
owners say they cannot continue business
under the interstate act as interpreted
now. Several hundred men are thrown
out of employment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

THERE are degrees of lying just as
there are of arson and murder, and
there ought to be degree of punish
ment for it. The man who started
the monstrous story that the Scythia
had been wrecked was q liar of the
superlatiye degree, and if he can be
run down, ought to suffer some kind
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Rricklayers Strike.

At Brooklyn on the 9TH The members Of
Bricklayers Lathers' Carpenters and Join
ers' and Stonemasons' Unions, numbering
5000, struck to enforce their demands.
The trainers also threatened to go out.
The dispatches fail to state the nature of
the mems demands.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
All Hands Missing,

A large three-masted schooner was dis
covered sunk five miles from the east end
of Nantucket island on Bass Rip ON the
9th. A boat crew went to her and found
her in ten fathoms of water with her sails
set. There is no tidings of the crew. Her
name has not been learned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

HERR KRUPP is going to start a
daily newspaper at Essen for the use
of his 10000 workmen. Herr Krupp
knows how to make big guns, but it
remains to be seen whether he will
know how to make q good newspaper.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Iron Works shut Down.

The Junction Iron works at Mingo, O.,
closed down on the 9th for an indefinite
period. About 600 men are thrown out If
employment. The cause of the shutdown
is said to be the unwillingness of buyers to
pay greatly increased freight rates under
theinter-state commerce law.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Don Carlos Heard From.

Three cars containing cartridges con-
signed to Carlist leaders we're seized by the
authorities at Corona, in the province of
that name. The men who had the ex-
plosives in charge and several others
known to be in sympathy with the pre-.
tensions of Don Carlos. were arrested.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

w. S. MCLEoN, an insane veteran Of
q New York regiment, has been award
ed arrears OF pensions amounting to
$12,489. Sometimes an old pension
is better than corner lot in g.
"boom" town.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Suspended for Ninety DAYS.

after listening to the appeals of various
Southern railways, has suspended in that
section for period of ninety days, the
operation of the long and short haul Sec
tion Of the law
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Catherine Wolfe's Generosity

Besides the splendid donation to the
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Miss Catherine Wolfe has made in her will
a bequest OF $3.50, 900 to Grace Church, OF
which she was member.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
A New Broom

w. s. Stokley, the director of public
safety, appointed by the mayor of Phila-
delphia, has notified the police lieutenants
to enforce the laws against gambling, prize
fighting and Sunday iquor-seling.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

OF severe punishment. The wretch
who would start such q report is built
in the same mould as the man who
maliciously yells "Gre" IN some
crowded asse nblY.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

MONTE CARLO TOURISTS NAVE
A NARROW ESCAPE

Immense Masses of Earth Slide Down and
Block Railways and Carriage Roads
Trains Laden With Visitors Barely
Avoid Destruction - Communications
With Monte Carlo Suspended--The Re-
suit of the Earthquake Shocks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
Qhe Repnblita't
WATERFOWL. WISCONSIN.

ADMIRAL PORTER is said to have re-
allied about 500 600 already from his
naval history. Of late years it may
be truly said that the warriors pen
has been mightier than his sword
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
EARTHQUAKES in New Hampshire.

quake shocks were felt on the 9Th. The
vibrations came from the east, and loud
detonations were heard like claps of thun-
der. The cracking of the frozen ground
and breaking of ice in the ponds added to
the noise. The shocks lasted about min
ute.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13
The Will Was Void.

The Wayne Circuit Court, at Detroit,
has decided the contest over the will OF the
late Francis J. Palms, which divided ST.
600. 900 between his two children. The
Court declares the will void.